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... yummy. Merida, also known as the white city - either because of the white stone, or because only Spaniards were allowed to live in it - is an old colonial city built by the Spanish after they eventually crushed the Mayans. It centres around a big square, on which our hostel was conveniently located. We started our colonial tour in the town hall, which was covered in absolutely amazing murals depicting the history of the ...

... s Palace, a long low building atop a huge platform, with the longest façades in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The Adivino (a.k.a. the Pyramid of the Magician or the Pyramid of the Dwarf), is a stepped pyramid structure, unusual among Maya structures in that its layers' outlines are oval or elliptical in shape, instead of the more common rectilinear plan. It was a common practice in Mesoamerica to build new temple pyramids atop older ones, but here a newer pyramid was ...

The pools were absolutely amazing and a fairly nice temperature considering it's freshwater. As nice as the water was we eventually had to get out and go and have a look at everything else Dzibilchaltun had to offer. There were temples, buildings statues and other stone creations spread out over a fairly large area. A school group could learn a lot ...

... had a huge bowl of something hot in it. And there's no air circulation. Mario doesn't look happy. We eventually realise that the back windows can be popped open slightly. I feel like a goldfish sucking at a tiny gap of air. Kabak is cool, but not nearly as large in size. We spend about 40mins there, and I play with a cute dog that actually wants to be patted (a lot of the dogs so far won't come near me). Then we stop at a hotel to have a buffet lunch. Which I ...

... each group of students presented their worksite posters to their host parents. Then, we all dug into the food and desert that each family brought. It was so fun speaking Spanish all during the table-talk - a very different Thanksgiving experience for me, but wonderful! I had to explain a couple times why the heck we have this holiday because many people were confused, thinking it was not just a U.S. holiday and they weren't connecting the history ...